From: "Steven Levine" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.4.10) with ESMTPS id 7205573 for ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 31 May 2023 13:14:21 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.randr ([192.168.200.201]:38770 helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by mail.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1q4POl-0001D0-0E for ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 31 May 2023 13:14:11 -0400 Received: from mta-202b.earthlink-vadesecure.net ([51.81.232.241]:40013 helo=mta-202a.earthlink-vadesecure.net) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtps (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1q4POe-0003L7-1C for ecs-isp@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 31 May 2023 13:14:04 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; bh=Wq6CgFr3EgwWwI9NYBiRUSDTmCbpOs3LkgM85q LGtLQ=; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=earthlink.net; h=from:reply-to:subject: date:to:cc:resent-date:resent-from:resent-to:resent-cc:in-reply-to: references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post: list-owner:list-archive; q=dns/txt; s=dk12062016; t=1685553243; x=1686158043; b=LovnfL4RjWBLlu0GmkT4XJ+UA/2OZi5uRPWh/CjSn5x+Vh24JIEFy8J nc3f3yoSftnpdMbnyuBj7/J5/warYW47krzsQA4TS9J70kKK5XVb2aq/DdIBo126w1OzUHd NqMj65gd7ua44/tvyueLVe5dCHPX95QJpKoup0u2TvEhjn6oO6AuzThTAJJIDQE2v+9fegq f8JjGuLi70gLOLJrrxZ0aYVkp33w+nW0rY3GDAXi54WqAERqww1nKYkwZLvSCCgLGz3NwZ+ KzCx6VuYmaMLIZgFGTdFNZBOR7mDB+dPHndM68PvuUeC9B79AbbTKSwYYdGkDtqlIRIDSHD w+A== Received: from slamain ([108.193.253.154]) by vsel2nmtao02p.internal.vadesecure.com with ngmta id f98d9a61-176449be77a69a0f; Wed, 31 May 2023 17:14:03 +0000 Message-ID: <647779fe.12.mr2ice.fgrirsq@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 09:46:54 -0700 To: "eCS ISP Mailing List" In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [eCS-ISP] Setting up BIND X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v3.00.11.24/60 In , on 05/31/23 at 08:43 PM, "Peter Moylan" said: Hi Peter, >Aha! Now here's an interesting point. Initially I accidentally did that >test with the copy of bind that I had put on drive D:, and again I got >that "A non-recoverable error ..." response. Hmmm. I did not think to check this kind of setup when trying to reproduce this message. I still cannot reproduce your failure message. I can get bind to silently refuse to start if the paths in named.conf are not good enough. If the paths are right bind is perfectly happy to run from volume I: with the configuration files on on volume D:. I suspect this is going to remain a mystery. >[C:\BIND9\SBIN]named-checkconf C:\mptn\etc\named.conf >[C:\BIND9\SBIN]named-checkconf -z C:\mptn\etc\named.conf >zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 1 >zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1 >zone 20.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1 >zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1 >zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1 >zone pmoylan.org/IN: loaded serial 2023042801 ... >This is at last starting to look like what I expected. This is typical error free output. >Encouraged by that, I tried >start C:\bind9\sbin\named.exe -c c:\mptn\etc\named.conf >and there were no error messages. :-) >Then, from my desktop machine, I did >[D:\]nslookup pmoylan.org >Server: server.pmoylan.org >Address: 192.168.20.5 >Name: pmoylan.org >Address: 192.168.20.5 >which is exactly the right response. (But it might have grabbed the >answer from a HOSTS file, so I'll have to eliminate that potential cause >of confusion.) Tomorrow I'll add your logging suggestion. Also, don't forget to edit resolv2 or override the default name server on the nslookup command line. For nslookup it's nslookup pmoylan.org 127.0.0.1 assuming you DNS is listening to 127.0.0.1. For dig, it's dig @127.0.0.1 pmoylan.org This is what I use when testing zone file updates. It's more convenient than working on two systems. I prefer dig.exe for testing because it does a better job of telling what it is doing. >Anyway, thanks for your help. This is excellent progress. You're welcome. Steven -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Steven Levine" Warp/DIY/BlueLion etc. www.scoug.com www.arcanoae.com www.warpcave.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------